School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)

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1. Weeds (continued)

   

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   Fionnán is a long coarse white grass which grows in marshy land. It is used for making ropes called "Súgáns" and for bedding

   Fedgock is a coarse grass blown about by the wind when whitened. An old saying is "As brittle as fedgock".

   Other inferior grasses are Creeping Bent and Fiorrin. They usually grow in poor pastures and give shelter to harmful insects

   These weeds spread rapidly and are borne in many ways such as by wind, water, manure threshing machines, road scrapings, seed eating birds and animals through whose stomachs the seeds pass undigested. The seeds

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary O' Sullivan

   Gender

   Female